Philadelphia Welsh Week ~ August 27 - September 4, 2022

Film and TV

Wednesday, August 31,  7:00 - 10:00 pm
Free Screening, Bookings necessary, first come first served.

 'Mr. Jones’ at Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

As part of Welsh Week,  in partnership with the Honorary Consul of Ukraine, Wales salutes Ukraine at this free screening of the biographical thriller movie Mr. Jones at the Philadelphia Film Center.  
Billed as the most important true story you will ever watch.
Cinema Bar opens at 7:00 pm
Screening from 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Donations will go to support Ukrainian refugees. 

 Mr Jones stars James Norton (Happy Valley, Grantchester), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Pieces of a Woman) and Peter Sarsgaard (The Batman, Dopesick) and is directed by Agnieszka Holland. The movie is based on the true but tragic story of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. In 1933 Jones travels to the Soviet Union and uncovers the truth about the ‘Holodomor’ - the deathly famine caused by Stalin in Ukraine.

Responsible for millions of deaths, the Soviets desperately want to conceal the famine from the outside world and Jones is the only journalist brave enough to break the story to the western media.  The screening is a partnership event between the Philadelphia Film Society and the Welsh Society of Philadelphia.

To learn more about Gareth Jones, see seminar The Man Who Knew Too Much  at the North American Festival of Wales at 2:00pm Fri. Sept. 2  &  9:30am Sat. Sept. 3.  Free entry for holders of a North American Festival of Wales Day Pass ($35 per day) available here.

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Shown Friday at 2:00 pm ,
Saturday at 1:00pm.

Cinema Wales at the DoubleTree by Hilton, 237 S Broad Street, Philadelphia

Friday, September 2 & Saturday, September 3. 
Films are shown 12:00 - 5:00 pm
See the film Schedule

Cinema Wales ~ DoubleTree by Hilton, 237 S Broad Street, Philadelphia.

Cinema Wales at the DoubleTree by Hilton will screen the 2022 Welsh movie ‘Save the Cinema’ together with TV programs about Frank Lloyd Wright; the Welsh National History Museum; the art of growing giant vegetables in Wales; and celebrating Black Welsh people.

Free entry for holders of a North American Festival of Wales Day Pass ($35 per day) available here.